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Originally Posted by twinkle555
I dont understand why people think 15% is still the "minimum" now-a-days. Prices on everything have gone up, minimum wage has gone up,so why is the old-fashioned 15% minimum still standard? In any restaurant you'll notice the automatic grat is minimum 18%....but I digress.
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The entire reason for it being 15% is because it "scales" with the food price, which increases when things like "cost of living" and "price of commodities" (which directly influence the price of meal) go up.
There is literally no reason to move up the percentage - it already takes into account the things you're worrying about, by its very nature.
Minimum grat is intended to push people away from large groups, which take up disproportionate time compared with smaller tables. You've actually disproven your own point there - the 18% is intended to be
punitive, not indicative.